The Headless Rider (1973)

5.9/10 100 min Romance Adventure Western

Overview

The film takes place in 1850, Texas, United States. Louise, daughter of the wealthy plantation owner Poindexter, master of the hacienda Casa del Corvo, falls in love with a poor mustanger Maurice Gerald. The night their secret rendezvous happens, her brother Henry disappears. Suspicion in murder falls on Gerald, who was found covered in blood, with signs of struggle on the body and on Henry's cloak. One more minute, and an angry crowd would have Gerald lynched, but then the mysterious Headless Horseman appears...

Cast

Oleg Vidov

Morris Gerald

Ludmila Savelyeva

Louisa Poindexter

Eslinda Núñez

Isidora Kovarubio De Los-L'yanos

Enrique Santisteban

El Koyot

Alejandro Lugo

Poyndekster

Aarne Üksküla

Cassius Calhoun

Ivan Petrov

Zeb Stamp

Alfonso Godínez

Plato

Rolando Diaz Reyes

major

Aleksandr Milokostyj

Henry Poindexter

Platon Leslie

judge

Vyktor Veselkyn

prosecutor

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